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This paper presents a fast, economical particle-multiple-mesh N-body code optimized for large-N modelling of collisionless dynamical processes, such as black-hole wandering or bar-halo interactions, occurring within isolated galaxies. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 John Magorrian

We present a new C++ code for collisional N-body simulations of star clusters. The code uses the Hermite fourth-order scheme with block time steps, for advancing the particles in time, while the forces and neighboring particles are computed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-08 Simos Konstantinidis , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating collisionless fluids with the traditional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Volker Springel , Naoki Yoshida , Simon D. M. White

We present a new version of the Method of Local Corrections (MLC) \cite{mlc}, a multilevel, low communications, non-iterative, domain decomposition algorithm for the numerical solution of the free space Poisson's equation in 3D on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Chris Kavouklis , Phillip Colella

This paper presents a grid-free simulation algorithm for the fully three-dimensional Vlasov--Poisson system for collisionless electron plasmas. We employ a standard particle method for the numerical approximation of the distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow , Steffen Weißer

Numerical simulations have become a necessary tool to describe the complex interactions among the different processes involved in galaxy formation and evolution, unfeasible via an analytic approach. The last decade has seen a great effort…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Alessandro Lupi , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk

With the approach of exascale computing era, particle-based models are becoming the focus of research due to their excellent scalability. We present a new code, Slurm, which implements the classic particle-in-cell algorithm for modeling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Fabio Bacchini , Stefaan Poedts , Giovanni Lapenta

We present a new fast method for simulating pencil-beam type light-cones, using the MLAPM-code (Multi Level Adaptive Particle Mesh) with light-cone additions. We show that by a careful choice of the light-cone orientation, it is possible to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Hein"am"aki , I. Suhhonenko , E. Saar , Maret Einasto , Jaan Einasto , Heidi Virtanen

We present a hydrodynamical code for cosmological simulations which uses the Piecewise Parabolic Method (PPM) to follow the dynamics of gas component and an N-body Particle-Mesh algorithm for the evolution of collisionless component. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Claudio Gheller , Ornella Pantano , Lauro Moscardini

This article describes a new, fully adaptive Particle-Multiple-Mesh numerical simulation code developed primarily for simulations of small regions (such as a group of galaxies) in a cosmological context. It integrates the equations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Sergio Gelato , David F. Chernoff , Ira Wasserman

We present $\texttt{MG-evolution}$, an $N$-body code simulating the cosmological structure formation for parametrised modifications of gravity. It is built from the combination of parametrised linear theory with a parametrisation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-03 Farbod Hassani , Lucas Lombriser

We describe numerical methods for incorporating gas dynamics into cosmological simulations and present illustrative applications to the cold dark matter (CDM) scenario. Our evolution code, a version of TreeSPH (Hernquist \& Katz 1989)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 Neal Katz , David H. Weinberg , Lars Hernquist

In this paper we describe the semi-spectral linear MHD (SLiM) code which we have written to follow the interaction of linear waves through an inhomogeneous three-dimensional solar atmosphere. The background model allows almost arbitrary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-12 R. Cameron , L. Gizon , K. Daiffallah

We present a method for integrating the cosmological hydrodynamical equations including a collisionless dark matter component. For modelling the baryonic matter component, we use the Piecewise Parabolic Method (PPM) which is a high-accuracy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Sornborger , B. Fryxell , K. Olson , P. MacNeice

MuSim is a new user-friendly program designed to interface to many different particle simulation codes, regardless of their data formats or geometry descriptions. It presents the user with a compelling graphical user interface that includes…

We implement an adaptation of the COLA approach, a hybrid scheme that combines Lagrangian perturbation theory with an N-body approach, to model non-linear collapse in chameleon and symmetron modified gravity models. Gravitational screening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-30 Georgios Valogiannis , Rachel Bean

Hybrid codes are widely used to model ion-scale phenomena in space plasmas. Hybrid codes differ from full particle (PIC) codes in that the electrons are modeled as a fluid that is usually assumed to be massless, while the electric field is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 D. Winske , Homa Karimabadi , Ari Le , N. Omidi , Vadim Roytershteyn , Adam Stanier

Particle-in-cell methods with stochastic collision models are commonly used to simulate collisional plasma dynamics, with applications ranging from hypersonic flight to semiconductor manufacturing. Code verification of such methods is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Brian A. Freno , William J. McDoniel , Christopher H. Moore , Neil R. Matula

In this era of precision cosmology, a detailed physical understanding on the evolution of cosmic baryons is required. Cosmic magnetic fields, though still poorly understood, may represent an important component in the global cosmic energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shengtai Li , Hui Li , Renyue Cen

Several extensions of the standard cosmological model include scalar fields as new degrees of freedom in the underlying gravitational theory. A particular class of these scalar field theories include screening mechanisms intended to hide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-04 Claudio Llinares , David F. Mota , Hans A. Winther